Sometimes a species just stops you in your tracks.  So it was with a superlative, breeding-plumaged, male Scarlet Tanager...

The word “tanager” conjures certain images for most of us birder types. Maybe words like “colorful,” “beautiful,” “fruit,” and...

The first time I saw a Western Tanager, it was in New York. In Central Park, to be exact....

No one pays attention to female Scarlet Tanagers.  Decked out in muted shades of green and yellow the best...

Most birdwatchers that visit Ecuador for the first time concentrate in the north-east and west slopes near the capital...

Something has always puzzled me in my years working in the bird feeding industry: why don’t we offer more...

Though the unpacking from my marvelous trip to Ecuador isn’t even close to done and I have about five...

When it’s a Piranga species tanager, obviously. Have you heard the news? The Fiftieth Supplement to the American Ornithologists’...